Word: asl
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...There is an academic sacrifice [to beingschooled in ASL], in terms of exposure to levelsof abstraction [in English]," she says...
Harvard does not offer ASL as a language, nordoes it accept previous work in ASL towardfulfillment of its foreign language requirement...
Phillips Brooks House Association sponsors agroup called The Committee on Deaf Awareness(CODA), which is led solely by hearing students.CODA offers several classes in ASL and organizesfrequent presentations surrounding deaf culture...
...says that having to rely only on ASL limitscommunication to only those people who canunderstand sign language...
...ASL is useful, yes, if people can understandyou all," she says. "I am much too integrated intothe hearing world--I don't see a separation of thetwo worlds," she says...